III - On St. Denio

The Student is Expected...

Klirrfarbenstrukturen

Primitive

This is Movement III of Suite for Microtonal Piano by Ben Johnston.

Ben Johnston

Refuge Invention

Nunc Dimittis

IV - On Westminster Abbey

Homage & Refuge

The “Collect for Purity” from the 1562 Book of Common Prayer became ubiquitous in Anglican liturgy worldwide. The oldest known manuscript is the 11th-century Leofric Missal for the Sarum Rite, the ancient form of British Christianity. Used as a centering prayer before priests emerged to celebrate, it was translated into Middle English in the 14th century as preface to The Cloud of Unknowing, an anonymous meditation manual. The movie, Cloud Atlas (2012) depicts English speech centuries into the future, evolved yet strangely intelligible. Cloud Collect is a setting of the Middle English “Collect for Purity” as a tribute to enduring meditative practices through the ever-changing stream of Anglophone expression.

A Max/MSP patch was developed to synthesize a virtual plucked instrument (along with filtered noise and other sounds), and to create an integer-multiple frequency structure of 32 tones per octave over 4 octaves. Algorithms randomize pitches and dynamically control ranges, and either randomize or rhythmize attacks (al la sample and hold) according to dynamically controlled temporal averages. In this way, virtual instrumental passages were developed for interpolation with vocoded text. Harmonic structures for vocoded passages reference chants of Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006) and Benjamin Hutto (1947-2015) in The Anglican Chant Psalter.

Cloud Collect

Peter Hulen

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